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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:42 AM

» Project Management Institute meeting in Alpharetta GA - 4 Dec 2007



I gave a speech at the Project Management Institute meeting in Alpharetta GA yesterday and it went very well.  That was the first time I had spoken at one of the PMI meetings and it was very nice.  People from the audience had some great questions
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:16 AM

» Cincinnati and Detroit security workshop slides



If you came to the SPI Dynamics workshop in Cincinnati or Detroit and would like a copy of the presentation slides they are available here. Thanks for coming to the presentation, I really enjoyed getting meeting everyone at the show.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:07 PM

» SPI Dynamics - Microsoft Hacking Lab



I would like to thank everyone who came to the three Microsoft / SPI Dynamics Hacking Labs we are doing this week and next week. Michael Sutton and I did a lot of work getting the presentation material together and I thank it does a nice job showing how

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 06:51 PM

» Web development helper



I was at Devscovery this week and saw this tool. If you are looking for functionality similar to a LocalHost proxy but want something that is more ASP.NET aware this is a great tool. It shows raw requests / responses but it also parses it into more ASP
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 01:53 PM

» SD West 2007



I gave a speech last week at SD West on the subject of Web Application Security. My talk was on Friday after lunch and was the last talk of the day. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people that came to the talk. It was the last talk on the
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Friday, March 16, 2007 04:04 PM

» PCI v1.1 Section 6.6 (a bit of clarification please)



If you are dealing with PCI ( https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ ) in your job I’m sure you have read the PCI v1.1 standard. You may have noticed that section 6.6, which makes either testing your applications or using some sort of app firewall is mandated
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 07:53 PM

» Cryptographicly random string in c# (.NEt)



For a long time I have been looking for a really easy way to create a cryptographically random string in c#. I knew it had to be simple but I just had not spend the time to dig one up. Specifically I was looking for a quick and easy way to get a string
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 07:25 PM

» Web Security Foundations class



I would like to thank all the people that attended my Web Application Security class in LA this week. If you would like a copy of the PPT please feel free to download it.
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Monday, February 05, 2007 12:25 PM

» Asking the Right Question: Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Analysis Tools, Which Is Best?



Over the past several years I have heard people asking the question “should I use vulnerability analysis tools to assess my web based applications or should I look to penetration testing?” I think we, as an industry, may be asking the wrong
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 02:44 PM

» SCACPA Tech-con 2006



I would like to thank the SCACPA for inviting me to speak at there December 18, 2006 Tech-Con. It was a pleasure getting to talk to the group. If you would like a copy of the slides they are attached below.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:37 AM

» Speaking tips from Eric Lee @ Microsoft



For those of you that give speeches this is a really good blog post with some speaking tips. Especially for those of us that give technical demos with VPC or VM images. http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlee/archive/2006/10/17/p...
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Monday, August 28, 2006 03:52 PM

» Devscovery update



I taught a few classes in Seattle last week at the Devscovery class. That is still one of my favorite conferences to speak at since I get to listen in on some very cool topics when I'm not speaking. I you are looking for the slides or notes I'm going
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 09:54 AM

» Localhost proxies



At some of the presentations I have been doing I have shown how to use a local host proxy. In case you are looking for one here is my favorites list: Tool: SPI Proxy Comments: Commercial tool that ships with all of SPI Dynamics, Inc. products. Obviously
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 09:22 AM

» Never do this at home



OK, I tried something that should have never worked, and something that I really don't suggest you ever do but it worked. I was running v2 of our AMP product on my server at home and needed to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. So, like
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 01:37 PM

» Share session state between ASP and ASP.NET apps article



A few years back I wrote an article on sharing session state between ASP and ASP.NET applications. If you would like to read the article it is currently here: http://searchvb.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid8_gci951935,00.html I also have some sample code
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